The stock would leap, but nothing more would be heard of the raid.
Mr. Tyson's personal stake would reach an even billion if the company's stock leaped from its current $23.625 to about $26.
The stock then leaped to $17.25 but fell back to $16.35 yesterday.
Sunbeam's stock leaped nearly 50 percent the day he was hired to run the company in 1996, and his memoirs became a best seller.
Amre stock leaped 35 percent the day the deal was announced; it did not soon stop.
Quote an unnamed money manager or two about how a company has excellent prospects, and the stock will leap.
The stock leaped 138 percent the first day and it was at $133.72 when it peaked in October 2000.
The stock leaped on each occasion, but later fell back.
In late 1986 and early 1987, he recalled, the bond market stalled while stocks leaped.
The stock, which has been in a slow decline over the last year, leapt.